22 August, 2015

Kissinger: ‘Breaking Russia has become objective for US’

“Former
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has hit out at American and
European Ukraine policy, saying it ignores Russia’s relationship
with its neighbor, and has called for cooperation between the White
House and the Kremlin on the issue. [...] The diplomat, who is most
famous for serving in the Nixon administration, and controversially
being awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the Vietnam
ceasefire, accused the West of failing to recognize the historical
context in which the fallout occurred between Moscow and Kiev.”

“Kissinger
lays the blame for sparking the conflict at the door of the EU, which
proposed a trade deal in 2013, without considering how it would
alienate Moscow, and divide the Ukrainian people.”

“For
Kissinger, the wheels of the stand-off between Moscow and the West
were already set in motion during the subsequent Maidan street
protests – heartily endorsed by the West – which demanded the
toppling of the pro-Russian Yanukovich, an aim that was eventually
achieved.”

“With
the armed conflict in Ukraine still showing no signs of resolution,
Kissinger repeated his previous proposal for Ukraine to become a
buffer, or mediator state between Russia and the West. [...] While
Kissinger insists that he believes that Ukraine’s territorial
integrity, including Crimea, which joined Russia last year, should
have remained unaffected, he called for the West to stop backing Kiev
at all costs, even as the victims of the conflict pile up.”

The designers of this plan have
failed to predict the reactions of Russian people in Crimea and
East Ukraine since they managed to revive the national collective
memory of the fights against the nazi invaders during WWII and
unite the Russian population, which is the majority in these
regions, against Svoboda and Right Sector neo-nazis.

What
we see in Ukraine is probably another failure of various think
tanks, mostly from Washington, which they are funded, of course,
by the international capital. It seems that, apart from the fact
that they have underestimated Putin's abilities, they have also
wrongly estimated that Russia had passed permanently in the
neoliberal phase and would be ready to become an easy victim to
promote their plans. According to these plans, the ultimate goal
would be probably to dissolve the vast Russian territory in future
and bring in power Western-friendly puppet regimes, in order not
only to conquer the valuable resources, but also to impose
permanently the neoliberal doctrine on "unexplored"
regions and populations.

"A think tank connected to
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger, the Center for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS), is calling for retooling the
U.S. military in preparation of a 'great power conflict' with 'a
newly aggressive Russia and rapidly modernizing China,' ..."